Learn · Climate Hazards and Disaster Mitigation

Lecture 1 of 60Week 1

Introduction to climate hazards and disasters

Prof. Priyank J. Sharma · IIT Indore

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All the lectures

  1. Introduction to climate hazards and disasters Video
  2. Climate change and vulnerability of India Video
  3. Hazard versus disaster and Risk versus vulnerability Video
  4. Summary: Climate hazards, disasters and vulnerability Video
  5. Learning Exercise: Mapping climate vulnerability profile Video
  6. Hydroclimatic measurements and data Video
  7. Extreme rainfall and temperature indices Video
  8. Geospatial data analysis for disaster mitigation Video
  9. Summary Hydroclimatic and geospatial data processing Video
  10. Hands on Downloading and processing gridded rainfall and temperature data Video
  11. Floods: Types, characteristics, causes and drivers Video
  12. Deriving flood characteristics & frequency analysis Video
  13. Trend analysis of flood characteristics Video
  14. Summary: Statistical techniques for flood assessment Video
  15. Hands-on: Flood frequency and trend analysis Video
  16. Flood frequency analysis Distribution fitting Video
  17. Compound and concurrent floods Video
  18. Bivariate flood frequency analysis using copula Video
  19. Summary Univariate and bivariate flood frequency analysis Video
  20. Hands on Flood Frequency Analysis - Univariate and Bivariate Video
  21. Urban flood modelling Video
  22. Flood hazard and risk mapping Video
  23. Flood mitigation and nature-based solutions Video
  24. Summary: Flood risk assessment and mitigation Video
  25. Hands-on: Urban flood risk assessment Video
  26. Droughts Types, characteristics, causes and drivers Video
  27. Estimation of drought indices Video
  28. Assessment of drought characteristics Video
  29. Summary Drought estimation and assessment Video
  30. Hands on Assessment of drought characteristics Video
  31. Drought severity and frequency analysis Video
  32. Drought propagation and transition Video
  33. Drought mitigation and nature-based solutions Video
  34. Summary: Drought severity and mitigation Video
  35. Hands-on: Drought propagation and transition Video
  36. Heat waves Causes and drivers Video
  37. Estimation of heat stress Video
  38. Urban heat island Video
  39. Summary Heat waves and heat stress Video
  40. Hands on Assessment of heat wave and stress Video
  41. Cold waves Causes and drivers Video
  42. Compound climate extremes Video
  43. Heat and cold wave mitigation approaches Video
  44. Summary Compound climate extremes Video
  45. Hands on Assessment of compound climate extremes Video
  46. Science meets policy and disaster mitigation Video
  47. Disaster risk reduction and economics of disasters Video
  48. Emergency and humanitarian response in disasters Video
  49. Summary: Disaster management and risk reduction Video
  50. Learning Exercise: Formulating a heat action plan Video
  51. Study of disaster management frameworks Video
  52. The Disaster Management Act 2005 India Overview Video
  53. The Disaster Management Act 2005 India Key Aspects Video
  54. The Disaster Management Act 2005 India Way forward Video
  55. Learning Exercise: Formulating a flood emergency action plan Video
  56. Role of big data in climate hazards and disaster modelling Video
  57. Role of climate change in modulating future occurrences of climate hazards Video
  58. Accounting non stationarity in modelling climate hazards Video
  59. Course Summary Climate hazards and risk assessment Video
  60. Course Summary Disaster mitigation and management Video